As an editor and as a reader, I am always excited about interviews conducted by Mariam Schaghaghi. The reasons are these: She is able to establish a closeness to the interviewees without being too buddy-buddy with them; she is polite but doesn't lose track when someone tries to elude a question; she is well-informed and well-prepared without being ostentatious about it.

In addition to that, she knows how to create a good conversational atmosphere despite the time constrictions of the interview slots given out to the press by publicists, who are often intent on controlling every aspect of the interview.

Mariam is a meticulous writer. In her texts, she manages to do justice to the films as well as the people behind it. Her cineastic horizon is broad, moreover, she is one of the few German speaking film journalists who masters all sorts of texts (reviews, portraits, interviews, reports) - even in the long form.

Interviews made by Mariam Schaghaghi are always a great pleasure: While reading them, you feel like being directly present as invisible third party in the room, witnessing a vivid conversation in form of a quick-witted ping-pong dialogue. Her portraits are characterized by empathy as much as expert knowledge, narrated in an elegant style with profound personal assessment. That's the way one should write stories about stars! That's exactly what our readers prefer. Her interviews are really highlights that stick out in the flat and dull article landscape of nowaday's people journalism.